ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq’s finance ministry on Monday announced that it had begun sending the Kurdistan Region’s civil servants’ salaries for the month of February to the Kurdistan Regional …
Iraq pays February salaries of Kurdistan Region’s civil servants: Ministry
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq’s finance ministry on Monday announced that it had begun sending the Kurdistan Region’s civil servants’ salaries for the month of February to the Kurdistan Regional …
UN-backed commission says 30,000 children are suffering rights abuses in northeastern Syria
Citizens from other nationalities live in a part of the camp known as the Annex, considered the home of the most die-hard IS supporters, many of whom came to Syria and Iraq starting in 2014.
Turkey to Step Up Militant Attack as Erdogan Courts Nationalists
Turkey is looking to expand its cross-border military operation against Kurdish militants in Iraq as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan courts more nationalist voters ahead of this month’s local elections …
US Firm Wins Aviation Maintenance Contract In Iraq
(MENAFN- Iraq Business News) By John Lee. Maryland-based Amentum Services Inc. has been awarded a $8,626,048 modification (P00335) to contract W58RGZ-19-C-0025 for aviation maintenance services. Work …
Syria avoids regional cold shoulder despite Captagon drug trade
It is just the latest seizure of the Middle East’s budget amphetamine of choice in Iraq, and in a region that lies just across the border from Syria, where the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has …
Iraq hopes to lure Christian pilgrims with new church in ancient Ur
The bell of a new church built near Iraq’s ancient city of Ur chimed for the first time last week as part of a push to lure back pilgrims to a country that is home to one of the world’s oldest …
Iraq Kurds digitise historic books in ‘sacred job’ to save threatened culture
Seen as the world’s largest stateless people, the Kurds are an ethnic group of between 25 and 35 million mostly spread across modern-day Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. In Iraq, the Kurds are a sizeable …
‘Sacred job’: Iraq Kurds digitise books to save threatened culture
Huddled in the back of a van, Rebin Pishtiwan carefully scans one yellowed page after another, as part of his mission to digitise historic Kurdish books at risk of disappearing.Back in the …
Iraq’s Transport Minister Visits AD Ports Group
By John Lee. Abu Dhabi’s AD Ports Group this week welcomed an Iraqi delegation headed by His Excellency Mr. Razzaq Muha …